Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 80 kg

The middleweight class was a judo event held as part of the Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. The weight class was the second-lightest contested, and allowed judokas of up to eighty kilograms. The competition was held on Wednesday, October 21, 1964.[1]

Twenty-five judokas from twenty nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Isao Okano  Japan	Wolfgang Hofmann  United Team of Germany	James Bregman  United States Kim Eui-Tae  South Korea

Results

Elimination round

The twenty-five competitors were divided into seven pools of three and one group of four. Each pool played a round-robin tournament, with the winner of the pool advancing to the quarterfinals.

Pool A

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Rodolfo Pérez (ARG)	2-0	QQ
2	Kanapathy Moorthy (MAS)	1-1
3	Bernardo Repuyan (PHI)	0-2

Pool B

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	James Bregman (USA)	2-0	QQ
2	Gabriel Goldschmied (MEX)	1-1
3	Peter Paige (AUS)	0-2

Pool C

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA)	2-0	QQ
2	Jacques le Berré (FRA)	1-1
3	Orlando Madrigal (CRC)	0-2

Pool D

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Peter Snijders (NED)	2-0	QQ
2	Pipat Singsanee (THA)	1-1
3	Thai Thuc Thuan (VIE)	0-2

Pool E

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Lhofei Shiozawa (BRA)	3-0	QQ
2	Alfred Redl (AUT)	2-1
3	Narzal García (PHI)	1-2
4	Rafael Barquero (CRC)	0-3

Pool F

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Kim Eui-Tae (KOR)	2-0	QQ
2	Huang Chin-chun (ROC)	1-1
3	Lê Bả Thành (VIE)	0-2

Pool G

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Lionel Grossain (FRA)	2-0	QQ
2	Jan Snijders (NED)	1-1
3	Sydney Hoare (GBR)	0-2

Pool H

Place	Judoka	Score	Qual.
1	Isao Okano (JPN)	2-0	QQ
2	Fernando Matos (POR)	1-1
3	Jorge Lugo (VEN)	0-2

Knockout rounds

The remaining eight judokas competed in a single elimination bracket. Losers in the quarterfinals were placed 5-8 while both losers in the semifinals won bronze medals.

Quarterfinals October 21				Semifinals October 21				Final October 21
Isao Okano (JPN)	Okuri-eri-jime
Lionel Grossain (FRA)	5:18			Isao Okano (JPN)	Waza-ari-chikai-waza
Kim Eui-Tae (KOR)	Awase-waza			Kim Eui-Tae (KOR)	-
Lhofei Shiozawa (BRA)	1:33							Isao Okano (JPN)	Yoko-shiho-gatame
Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA)	Uchi-mata							Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA)	1:36
Peter Snijders (NED)	3:10			Wolfgang Hofmann (EUA)	Udehishigi-juji-gatame
James Bregman (USA)	Awase-waza			James Bregman (USA)	1:21
Rodolfo Pérez (ARG)	5:16

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.

References

1. "Judo at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Middleweight". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2018.